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Farm Layout

March 17, 2012 by MDF

Farm Layout

""macalister farm paddock numbers"
The MDF is a commercially operated dairy farm of 92 hectares with a milking area of 72 hectares that is all sown to a pasture of perennial ryegrass. The farm renovates about 10 ha per year, sowing one variety per paddock.

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The Macalister Demonstration Farm, formerly the Macalister Research Farm, is a farmer-owned co-operative established on April 13th 1960. A collaboration between dairy farmers of the MID and the Department of Agriculture at Maffra resulted in the … Read More

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